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package com.sun.corba.se.spi.ior;

import org.omg.CORBA_2_3.portable.InputStream;

import com.sun.corba.se.spi.ior.Identifiable;

/**
 * Factory interface for creating Identifiables.
 */
public interface IdentifiableFactory {

  /**
   * Return the id of this factory, which is the id of the result
   * of any create call.
   */
  public int getId();

  /**
   * Construct the appropriate Identifiable object with the
   * given id from the InputStream is.
   */
  public Identifiable create(InputStream in);
}
